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Simon Cockell

@sjcockell.bsky.social

Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics @ Newcastle University. Director of Research, School of Biomedical, Nutritional and Sport Sciences. Spatial analysis, transcriptomics, MASLD, multiomics.

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this feels like a sensible direction to go in...

11.03.2025 13:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I voted for a government that would behave differently, and got more of the same.

Only itโ€™s worse, because offering no genuine alternative means the real headbangers get in next time. Then weโ€™re really screwed.

12.02.2025 14:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™ve been trying to ignore news lately, especially live reporting that tends to catastrophise everything. I was hoping that over time a more generally positive picture of Labour in power would be able to emerge. That just isnโ€™t going to happen is it?

12.02.2025 14:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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STExplorer: Navigating the Micro-Geography of Spatial Omics Data Spatial transcriptomics (ST) has the potential to provide unprecedented insights into gene expression across tissue architecture, but existing analytical methods often overlook the full complexity of ...

New preprint from the lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excellent work by PhD student Lefteris (www.linkedin.com/in/zormpasle...) - applying established methods from Geography like fuzzy geographically-weighted clustering and geographically-weighted regression to spatial transcriptomics data.

23.01.2025 14:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

STExplorer: Navigating the Micro-Geography of Spatial Omics Data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.17.633539v1

22.01.2025 17:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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STExplorer: Navigating the Micro-Geography of Spatial Omics Data Spatial transcriptomics (ST) has the potential to provide unprecedented insights into gene expression across tissue architecture, but existing analytical methods often overlook the full complexity of ...

That preprint I mentioned yesterday: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

โ€œSTExplorer: Navigating the Micro-Geography of Spatial Omics Dataโ€ - continuing our inter-disciplinary work in applying geospatial methods to molecular data. Grateful to all our excellent collaborators.

22.01.2025 21:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The special futility of redoing work I did last year because the machine image was deleted without consultation. On a service that is going to be retired in 2 years anyway.

22.01.2025 14:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Going to try to remember to post more here. Mostly #AcademicSky and #bioinformatics. Have a pre-print in the queue at @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social that I'll be spamming the heck out of shortly...

21.01.2025 12:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

GCSE results day! Overwhelming parental emotion is relief - he worked really hard and has results to match the effort.

22.08.2024 10:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Finally ditching space Karen's site. Struggling to delete the profile I've had since 2008, but I will get there.

21.08.2024 17:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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